Category: Science and Health

For many years, people who suffer from fibromyalgia never got any sort of proper response from medical professionals. They were all told that they were healthy people who had pain, and it was just something they had to live with. But today, this is fortunately no longer the case. “Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome […]

“Children want dolls they can relate to, dolls that look like them,” says Tami Gutman, a special education teacher at ADI Jerusalem. ADI is an acronym for “ability, diversity, inclusion.” “For children with severe disabilities and complex medical conditions, dolls that mirror their life situations are not available in neighborhood toy stores, so I decided […]

Fats are divided into two types: One kind that is beneficial for heart health, such as vegetable oils and fatty fish, and the other kind, types that are harmful to the heart, like animal fats such as meat and hydrogenated fats. The German Nutrition Association explained that the fats that are beneficial for heart health […]

If you have trouble sleeping well at night, it may be time to give up some problematic sleeping habits. Dr. Karan Raj, a lecturer at the University of Sunderland in England, shared five things he claims you should avoid doing before bed with his 5.1 million followers on TikTok. The first is to go to […]

The psychiatric history of fathers, as well as mothers’, is linked with preterm birth, according to a study just published by Swedish researchers in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine. They showed for the first time that the risk of birth before the end of 40 weeks is higher in infants whose fathers or mothers have […]

We all want to improve our lives, and we put a lot of effort into it. The basis of all self-improvement is high and healthy self-esteem. This is really the start of any valuable change we want to make. What is self-esteem? Self-esteem is your opinion about yourself. It’s influenced by factors such as your […]

Spending over 30 minutes per week speaking on the phone causes a 12% increased risk of developing high blood pressure, according to a new study published on May 4. The peer-reviewed study, published in The European Heart Journal – Digital Health, found that making and receiving phone calls increased the risk of hypertension.   “It’s […]

After holding a hearing on Thursday morning with officials at Assuta’s private hospital in Tel Aviv’s Ramat Hahayal, the Health Ministry ordered that its in-vitro fertilization unit must reduce its activity and that the hospital should appoint a senior expert from outside the medical center to supervise what is carried out, assist in updating procedures […]

Even before your children reached the age age two, you already knew that the famous tantrums everyone is talking about were coming. You may have met them earlier than you thought, around the age of one and a half. And now that your child is three years old, you are deep in the world of […]

Summer vacation is already here, and many families are going out and planning vacations in Israel and around the world. Despite the undoubtedly important purpose of family vacations, it is important to pay attention to a slightly less talked-about issue in relation to summer vacation – the increased risk of depression and anxiety. For many […]